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Owen Bahr

3×3 · top 3.1% of 288,433 all-time · competing since March 2024 · 2024BAHR01

Owen Bahr has been competing for 3 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 8.14, set at Penn Cube Day Fall 2026, puts him in the top 3.1% of the 288,433 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,763rd in the United States. Until July 2008, no official 3×3 solve in the world had been that fast. Across 16 competitions since March 2024, he has put 495 official solves on the record across twelve events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 12% around a typical one, steadier than 77% of the 36,406 competitors with ten or more counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 23.45 in March 2024 to 8.14, a 65% improvement. Owen has entered 16 competitions, more competitions than 96% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 3.1% of 288,433 all-time
8.14
signature single · Penn Cube Day Fall 2026
495
official solves on the record
12%
solve-to-solve spread · steadier than 77% of the field

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingUnited States
3×38.1410.64
top 3.1%1,763 / 60,666
Pyraminx4.105.94
top 8.2%2,137 / 29,168
2×22.683.23
top 10.8%4,298 / 41,674
4×441.4451.21
top 13.9%2,098 / 19,354
Megaminx1:18.651:25.82
top 20.9%1,465 / 8,026
Skewb5.458.48
top 21.6%3,494 / 19,164
5×51:24.531:35.63
top 23.0%1,807 / 9,537
3×3 one-handed21.5523.58
top 24.8%3,241 / 15,900
Square-122.3228.42
top 33.2%2,176 / 6,846
Clock13.4820.12
top 41.7%3,416 / 9,172
6×63:32.846:35.36
top 55.9%2,145 / 4,262
7×76:45.94—
early days — 1 solve2,468 / 3,236

Percentile against all competitors ever ranked in each event, a fairer measure than raw rank, because the pools differ by a factor of ten.

The line so far

Penn Cube Day Spring 2024: 23.45New-Cumberland County 2024: 23.07South Jersey Speedsolving 2024: 20.77Pretzel Mania Summer 2024: 15.33PBs in Palisades Open 2025: 10.56PA-retzel Mania Winter 2025: 15.28Fort Lee Summer 2025: 11.16CubingUSA Heartland Championship 2025: 11.00Christmas City Cubing PA 2025: 9.92Fort Lee Winter 2026: 11.72Edgemont Cubing 2026: 10.17RCBC Cube Day NJ 2026: 10.25LCCC Cubing Summer 2026: 9.34Mid-Atlantic Speedcubing Championship 2026: 10.40Penn Cube Day Fall 2026: 8.148.1423.452 Mar 202410 Oct 2026

Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.

The story so far

Competitions

Reading this page: a single is one solve's time · an average is the middle three of five solves, best and worst discarded · a PB is a personal best · a DNF (did not finish) is an attempt with no valid result: a popped piece, an unsolved face, an over-limit memorisation · top X% compares against everyone ever ranked in that event, which is fairer than raw rank because event pools differ tenfold.

The circuit

The people whose scorecards keep turning up next to his.

Next targets

  • A sub-8 3×3 single — 8,101 people have one; it is 0.14 away.
  • A sub-4 Pyraminx single — 10,050 people have one; it is 0.10 away.

Targets move as he improves.